There are innumerable reasons to vote against Matthew Guy and his loathsome Liberal and National mates on Saturday, and Guy’s neanderthal stance on Richmond’s safe injecting room should be high on everybody’s list.

Hey Marty, tell us what you really think! But seriously, it’s a sad indictment on Victorian politics when the only realistic alternative to Dan is this …. guy. I totally agree with your assessment. Unfortunately, he obviously thinks that it’s a vote winner (which is a worse indictment on society in general if true).

Don’t get me stated on what he did while Planning Minister. Hopefully Victoria has a long memory. And hopefully he’ll end up being the Fall Guy.

You’re right, of course. Guy was a woeful planning minister, and the fact that he’s an inept and dodgy business-sycophantic twit should matter the most. But not for me. What I really can’t stand is Guy’s cheap sanctimony, his willingness to demonise and to destroy while claiming the God-given moral high ground. Every time I read about Guy’s “Christianity” I want to puke.

There is obviously a time for reasoned criticism. There is also a time, however, for dismissive contempt, and I think Guy’s sleazy election stunt was such a time. It is clear that Guy himself didn’t give a stuff about the evidence of the success of the Richmond trial. He simply didn’t care that lives were being saved, and he was pandering to fearful and ignorant people who he hoped also didn’t care. In that light, the evidence was beside the point, and marshalling the evidence would have been a waste of time.

There are other reasons why I didn’t and don’t want to argue on the evidence for Richmond’s trial, but Guy’s heartlessness was reason enough.

Clearly the voters gave their reaction to his parties campaign in spades last weekend

SteveR

Ps you might enjoy Ben Goldacre’s book mentioned above ( an ex UK GP and journalist for the Guardian). He has been sued many tmes for “outing” misleading claims of homeopathic treatments
and understating the potential side effects of trial based beta drugs .

I believe he is currently researching on the over prescription of statins in the NHS